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Sri Lanka’s Step Towards Reconciliation?

Yesterday’s elections in Sri Lanka’s Northeastern Province is the most significant step the government has taken since the end of the civil war four years ago to address grievances of the Tamil community. Read Here – The Heritage Foundation The TNA Tsunami: Rebalancing The Equation – The Island

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Elections In Northern Sri Lanka, Finally

Voters in Sri Lanka‘s north thronged polling stations on Saturday in an election that threatens to rekindle animosity between the government and ethnic minority Tamils, four years after the military crushed separatists and ended a 26-year war. Read Here – Reuters

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Devolution, Dangers And Sri Lanka

The Thirteenth Amendment was the direct result of the Indo-Lanka Accord, an international treaty between India and Sri Lanka. The treaty acknowledges that Sri Lanka is a “multiethnic and a multilingual plural society” and that the majority Tamil-speaking Northern and Eastern Provinces are areas of historic Tamil habitation. In theory, it also limits the majority […]

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Sri Lanka: War is Over but Tensions Run High

Jaffna, the capital of Sri Lanka’s Northern Province and once the bastion of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), is once again experiencing unrest. Violent clashes broke out on November 27, Martyrs’ Day for Tamil, between students of Jaffna University and Sri Lankan security forces. Each year Tamils use Martyrs’ Day to honor friends […]

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